Vehicle and method of managing contents for the same

Abstract

Provided are a vehicle for efficiently managing contents and a method of managing contents for the vehicle. The method of managing contents of a head unit including a memory includes: entering a menu for setting contents to be output; requesting thumbnail information to a server and receiving the thumbnail information from the server, where the thumbnail information comprises at least one thumbnail and the at least one thumbnail corresponds to at least one first content whose original is stored in the server; upon receiving a selection command corresponding to at least some of at least one thumbnail included in the received thumbnail information, and determining another content corresponding to the original to be requested to the server based on the at least some thumbnail corresponding to the selection command and at least one second content having the original previously stored in the memory.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of managing contents of a head unit comprising a memory for a vehicle, the method comprising:
 entering a menu for setting a content to be output;   requesting thumbnail information to a server and receiving the thumbnail information from the server, wherein the thumbnail information comprises at least one thumbnail and the at least one thumbnail corresponds to at least one first content whose original is stored in the server;   upon receiving a selection command corresponding to at least some of the at least one thumbnail included in the received thumbnail information, and based on the at least some thumbnail corresponding to the selection command and at least one second content whose original is previously stored in the memory, determining at least one third content whose original to be requested to the server; and   receiving the original of the at least one third content from the server.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the determining of the at least one third content comprises: determining, as the at least one third content, at least one content that does not correspond to the at least one second content among the at least some thumbnail corresponding to the selection command. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising: deleting, from the memory, at least one original of content that does not correspond to the at least one thumbnail included in the received thumbnail information among the at least one second content. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising: upon receiving the original of the at least one third content from the server, outputting, on a display, a content corresponding to the at least some thumbnail corresponding to the selection command. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the outputting is performed through a digital frame application. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising: transmitting, to the server, a result of setting the content to be output corresponding to the at least some thumbnail corresponding to the selection command. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , further comprising: synchronizing, by the server, a device logging in with a user account that is the same as a user account of the head unit based on the result of setting the content to be output to settings of the content to be output. 
     
     
         8 . A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon, the program to direct a processor to perform acts of:
 entering a menu for setting a content to be output;   requesting thumbnail information to a server and receiving the thumbnail information from the server, wherein the thumbnail information comprises at least one thumbnail and the at least one thumbnail corresponds to at least one first content whose original is stored in the server;   upon receiving a selection command corresponding to at least some of the at least one thumbnail included in the received thumbnail information, and based on the at least some thumbnail corresponding to the selection command and at least one second content whose original is previously stored in a memory, determining at least one third content whose original to be requested to the server; and   receiving the original of the at least one third content from the server.   
     
     
         9 . A head unit for a vehicle, the head unit comprising:
 a memory;   a communication unit configured to:
 request thumbnail information comprising at least one thumbnail to a server, each of the at least one thumbnail corresponding to at least one first content whose original is stored in the server, and 
 receive the thumbnail information from the server upon entering a menu for setting a content to be output; and 
   a control unit configured to:
 upon receiving a selection command corresponding to at least some of the at least one thumbnail included in the received thumbnail information, and based on the at least some thumbnail corresponding to the selection command and at least one second content whose original is previously stored in the memory, determine at least one third content whose original to be requested to the server, and control the original of the at least one third content to be received from the server through the communication unit. 
   
     
     
         10 . The head unit of  claim 9 , wherein the control unit is further configured to determine, as the at least one third content, at least one content that does not correspond to the at least one second content among the at least some thumbnail corresponding to the selection command. 
     
     
         11 . The head unit of  claim 9 , wherein the control unit is further configured to delete, from the memory, at least one original of content that does not correspond to the at least one thumbnail included in the received thumbnail information among the at least one second content. 
     
     
         12 . The head unit of  claim 9 , further comprising: a display configured to output content corresponding to the at least some thumbnail corresponding to the selection command upon receiving the original of the at least one third content from the server. 
     
     
         13 . The head unit of  claim 12 , wherein the control unit is further configured to control the content corresponding to the at least some thumbnail corresponding to the selection command to be output through a digital frame application. 
     
     
         14 . The head unit of  claim 9 , wherein the control unit is further configured to control the communication unit to transmit a result of setting the content to be output corresponding to at least one thumbnail corresponding to the selection command to the server.